Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
Since the House bill is destined to be rewritten in Conference after the Senate passes the Pope-McGill Bill, Administration leaders completed the first month of the special session with the hardest part of their No. 1 job still ahead. Both House and Senate bills aim to give Secretary Wallace more power to deal with mounting farm production than he possesses under last year's makeshift Soil Conservation Act. Both authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts...
...Cliff Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back to Washington, and as they rehearsed for the wind-up with the fearsome Bears, railroads offered jubilant Washington fans a special rate of $23.20 for the round-trip to Chicago. The Bears were 10-to-7 favorites. They had lost only one game (out of eleven) all season, the Redskins had lost three. Chicagoans predicted heavyweight Wrestling Champion Bronko Nagurski would rip the Redskin line and Bernie Masterson would take care...
After his trip to Armenia Lake will go to his home in Harverford, Pennsylvania, where he will edit a magazine with his wife. His special field, for which he is widely renowned, is Old Testament texts and Greek writings...
...provides "instruction in playwriting for those who desire it," yet such instruction is of an incidental nature, and the main emphasis of the course is not upon the technique of the drama. Furthermore, the enrollment of the course is strictly limited. In all other English composition courses, special emphasis is placed upon the short story or other literary forms, and instruction in playwriting, if given at all, plays an unimportant part...